2009 Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 10, 2023
Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossil fuels as the problem. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019.
Union of Concerned Scientists
OCTOBER 12, 2022
As part of its ongoing investigation of fossil fuel industry climate disinformation, the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform released more than 200 pages of internal corporate documents last month that provide new evidence of industry deception. Companies Plot “Greenwashing” Campaigns.
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Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets. billion tonnes and 700 millions tonnes for the US and the EU, respectively.
Law Columbia
MAY 8, 2024
However, unlike the energy sector, where renewable energy sources, reduced consumption and increased energy efficiency offer clear alternatives to today’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, decarbonizing the industrial sector presents a more complex challenge.
A Greener Life
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?
Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
The California Court of Appeal reversed a trial court’s determination that the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 required the Delta Stewardship Council to adopt performance measure targets as legally enforceable regulations in the long-term management plan for the Delta to achieve certain objectives of the Act.
Law Columbia
MAY 7, 2021
Maryland County Filed Climate Change Lawsuit Against Fossil Fuel Companies and Trade Group. Annapolis, a city in the county, previously filed a separate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies.) Exxon Mobil Corp. , 451071/2021 (N.Y. BP p.l.c. , C-02-CV-21-000565 (Md. Chevron USA Inc. , 21-15318 (9th Cir. Sunoco LP , No.
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